The Empire's Destiny

By Asso

Rating: M

Genres: adventure, dark, and romance: the romance which there can be in the MU. An MU romance.

Keywords: Mirror Universe. And its Destiny.


A/N

First.

I must say that, in general, I don't like too much AU stories (Woe to those who dare think that my stories are AU! LOL) and even less MU stories, with some rare exceptions. Obviously I am not saying that they aren't good stories, merely I perceive the AU stories as stories which treat other personages, who have not too much to do with those that I love (I'm talking about the stories which are TOTALLY AU, which takes our beloved characters and slide them into scenarios which are only a pale ghost of what we saw on screen. But it is evident, in reality, that a dollop of AU there must be - inevitably - in every story).

In particular, as for the Mirror Universe, it is for me a ragbag of stupidity and of nonsense. And just here is the point: Is there a way to make this universe a little more "intelligent"? Less absurd?

Well! See what I attempted to do! My presumption has no limits!

So, here are the first pages of the true story of the MU. Here, you will be able to know its destiny, and those who this destiny have forged.

And this time (and once more), justTripn wanted to help me.

Second and very important.

For those who are willing to read these pages, I warn them that they are hard and harsh; the language is anything but sweet; and the scene which is starting in these first lines could be disagreeable for someone.

Nevertheless remember that I am love with T'Pol, both in the real and in the mirror Universe.

Never I could sink her in the mud.

And then... there is Trip.


The Empire's Destiny

By Asso

How Things Began


There was no way of escape.

She had to die.

And without any dignity, among the mocking guffaws of everyone.

The final outcome of her dream of freedom was this cage, where she had been locked in, nude, at the mercy of a pack of brutes mind-deprived, who would abuse her in every way, would harrow her, mangle her, tear her to pieces, before the eyes of her taskmasters, of her revengeful tormentors.

And she would die with shame and atrocious pain, yelling of fear and ache, under the derisive look and the malignant sneer of the despicable and picayune woman, whom a malevolent Destiny had allowed to proclaim herself Empress.

No!

No.

She wouldn't give that contemptible whore this satisfaction.

She wouldn't cede to her abasement and her fright, wouldn't tremble in terror, wouldn't whimper in anguish, wouldn't writhe of pain, while the dark would gulp her, cruelly and savagely, under the greedy and ferocious lusts of those half-human beasts, by their fangs and their claws.

She would be capable of displaying to those barbaric Humans that a Vulcan woman knows how to die.

She straightened, removing her back from the bars of the cage she had leaned on in dismay after grinning jailors had hurled her inside, and, standing up, she saw the fate she could expect: a horde of slavering beasts in the shape of gigantic Humanoids, howling at the sight of her, whom her gaolers were ready to free from their chains at the Empress' order.

Regret and sadness crossed her soul. Nothing remained to her, not even her self-respect.

Not even... the only person, the only man, who had given her a little warmth in this evil universe. In the only, harsh way he could know. But he had done it. And now... by her deeds and her failure, she had lost even him.

And to reach her aims, which had slipped away between her fingers, she had betrayed him and used him. And had permitted that he was tortured and punished, unjustly, for faults that were hers.

She... she wasn't better than those Humans. Than him.

She deserved this horrible punishment.

Her deeds and her failure ...

Because of them the Empire's vengeful iron fist would beat down awfully and without any pity on the subdued races that Humans had reduced to slavery. The new technologies Humans had acquired would allow them to do that, and the result of what she had done would be an Empire even wickeder and harder, led by a woman evil and without a soul, whose revengeful wrath would rampage over a Vulcan people guilty only of having given birth to her.

The curses of her own race would follow her forever, and she would be lonely and despised even in her death.

All that would be the upshot of her deeds and of her failure.

She deserved this horrible punishment.

And the only thing she could do now was to try to die with a bit of dignity.

She lifted her chin, looking defiantly at her former colleague, at the Empress.

Her voice arose firmly from the cage, among the boarish grunts and the growls of the Human beasts.

"You won't see me cry out of fear and pain, won't derive enjoyment and pleasure from my shame. I will fight to death, and neither your bestial headsmen will have my body nor you will have my soul."

A heavy silence descended on the salon. There were only the beastly and feral verses of the wild brutes, in the shape of Humanoid beings.

The Vulcan stepped ahead, turning her back to the screaming beastly Humanoids, toward the side of the cage, in front of which was gathered the crowd of her Human persecutors, with the icily silent Empress in the front row.

The Vulcan rose up in all her magnificent nudity.

She grasped with both hands two cage's bars and brought her face to them.

She stared proudly at the Empress from behind the bars and then... she spit out her gob and her scorn to the feet of the livid sovereign.

The Empress said nothing. She simply gazed silently at the naked woman in the cage.

For some instants, nothing moved.

Only the ferine howls of the monsters and the bated silence of the Human crowd.

Then, the Empress snapped her fingers.


TBC

So, be sincere. Did I manage to reawaken a whit of interest?

Should I go on?